Elizabeth Garrison
Lombardy
Italy
Translating
Content writing
Italian > English
Spanish > English
Food and Drink
Tourism
With 16+ years' experience in the translation industry and clients ranging from Michelin-starred restaurants to the European Commission, I approach my translation work with a mixture of passion and precision; I am committed to getting every word right, and to creating translations that read like the original, adapted appropriate for the target audience in question. My speciality areas include wine and food, travel and tourism and business.
- Corpus guidance: a tool for understanding professional language usage, change, and variety
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Wine words – translating in the wine world
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Human nutrition and climate change: a knowledge update for language professionals
- Editing humanities and social science texts: theory and practice
- Delving into GenAI as a resource for language professionals
- Speaking a brand’s language: a deep dive into verbal identity
- Translating art from Spanish
- Grammar pathway minisession: subject–verb agreement
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
- Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond
- Signposting the way: using punctuation to improve flow
- Translating contracts
- Relatives: the clause type — and why people still argue about 'which'
- The comma: to pause or to parse?
- Beat the agencies at their own game: develop a watertight translation workflow process
- Translating for the art world
- Translation revision and beyond
- Dealing with parentheses: commas, brackets and dashes
- Cooking up the right words: hints, tips and tricks for successful food translation
- Incorporating gender-inclusive language into our work
- Translation editing for the humanities – music and movements
METM16 presentation: "A year as a digital nomad: mid-term report"
In this day and age, many of us are fortunate enough to be in a position where we can work remotely and do our jobs from anywhere in the world, as ‘digital nomads’, something that freelance translation/editing lends itself to. This presentation will reflect on my first six months into my year of living as a digital nomad. I will explain what living and working on the road entails, the positives and negatives of being part of a group of creative and entrepreneurial nomads, coworking and coexisting. Some of the questions I will be looking at will include: how can you strike a balance between juggling a (nearly) full workload with taking advantage of everything the destination has to offer? How do you stay in touch with clients and colleagues on the other side of the world in totally different time zones? How can you draw on your fellow nomads’ skills and experience to enhance your own?
2026: Vinitaly; Scrivere di Gusto wine and food writing course
2025: Italian Sommelier Association (AIS) Level 2 course; Vinitaly
2024: AIS Monza study trip to Campania; Paestum Wine Fest; Vinitaly
2023: AIS mini-courses; Vinitaly; Fermento Milano
2022: AIS Level 1 course; Vinitaly
2021: Vinitaly Special Edition; Italian Wine Scholar Unit 2; Fermento Milano
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